What does the " Z " stand for in DBZ?

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What does the " Z " stand for in DBZ?
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SSJ4Radkin	Oct 21 2007, 01:42 PM Post #31
Posts: 73 Group: Member Member #2,746 Joined: October 14, 2007 Favourite Anime DBZ, Bleach, Kanon (2006) [main favourites] What Browser do you use? Opera Favourite Manga I don't actually read manga, but if I were to have to choose, Bleach/Shonen Jump	I never really thought about it... i agree with those who said that "Z" makes it look cool. Nice sig and quote by the way -NM- Killa ^^ lol
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Gogeta_ssj4	Dec 1 2007, 01:00 AM Post #32
Posts: 54 Group: Member Member #2,915 Joined: December 1, 2007	Z stands for Z fighters or warriors. The names of the warriors are Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Chiazu, Trunks, and Goten.



Blue Angel	Dec 2 2007, 12:52 AM Post #33
Posts: 32 Group: Member Member #2,895 Joined: November 26, 2007	Hmmm I saw that in some special extra DVD or something they said that they just added the Z because it sounded cool.
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* Light	Dec 2 2007, 01:04 AM Post #34
Yo Posts: 5,563 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,705 Joined: October 5, 2007 Gender Not Specified Country United Kingdom Favourite Manga The Story of Light the Legend by Cal/DBZF Invasion! by Copy_Ninja	QUOTE (Volume 7 of Shonen Jump @ July, 2006) In Japan, the Dragonball and Dragonball Z manga are a single series simply known as Dragonball. In America, Dragonball is volumes 1-16 of the manga and Dragonball Z is volumes 17-42- that corresponds with volumes 1-26, the 26th of which has finally been published! What does the “Z” mean? It’s just a subtitle invented for the second season of the Japanese anime, distinguishing the earlier, funnier stories from the later, more intense stories when the characters are grown up. I took that from Tyro, who took it from shonen jump, a reliable source



* -Zero-	Dec 2 2007, 02:12 PM Post #35
Black Knight Posts: 8,697 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,874 Joined: November 5, 2006 Favourite Anime Code Geass, Death Note, Dragonball/Z	Sometimes people should read the whole topic before posting :/
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Invictus	Jan 6 2008, 10:05 AM Post #36
Close to the Edge Posts: 1,129 Group: Member Member #2,433 Joined: July 14, 2007 Favourite Anime what anime What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga what manga	Gogeta_ssj4 Dec 1 2007, 01:00 AM Z stands for Z fighters or warriors. The names of the warriors are Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Chiazu, Trunks, and Goten. Maybe the newcomers in DragonBall (Demon King Piccolo Saga) were dubbed Z-Fighters, then the newcomers in DBZ. I mean, they never wore Z-Fighter uniforms.



Balthazor	Jan 7 2008, 11:00 AM Post #37
I'm damn serious Posts: 1,762 Group: Member Member #3,096 Joined: January 7, 2008 Favourite Anime DBZ , YuYu Hakusho ,Inuyasha , Yu Gi Oh , Pokemon What Browser do you use? Internet Explorer Favourite Manga DBZ , YuYu Hakusho ,Inuyasha , Yu Gi Oh ,Naruto	The "Z" means it's the last of the series....
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‡Lex‡	Jan 7 2008, 12:17 PM Post #38
o_O Posts: 62 Group: Member Member #3,082 Joined: January 5, 2008	I dont think it stands for anything but "Z"
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DBZAmbar	Jul 27 2008, 09:30 AM Post #39
Posts: 13 Group: New Member Member #3,576 Joined: July 22, 2008	Z stands for Z fighters couldn't you figure it out huh? FOOLS! x-(
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+ Rebel X	Jul 27 2008, 11:39 AM Post #40
Posts: 11,612 Group: Legend Member #88 Joined: January 16, 2005	DBZAmbar Jul 27 2008, 09:30 AM Z stands for Z fighters couldn't you figure it out huh? FOOLS! x-( You ever think Z-Fighters stands for the Z. Couldn't you figure that out hmmmm Phewl X( I really didn't care for the Z, meaning I didn't make a big deal of it, it flowed well with the title and show. BUT some think the Z in DBZ doesn't mean Zeta, but they think it's "Zenkai", which is in the title of the first ending song of DBZ, "Tobikkiri Zenkai Power". "Zenkai" means "Full Thottle", and full throttle applys to the characters, scenes, and the whole show in general just going all the way extreme, more than DB did. Or it cud be Cellgetas theory of it being the last letter, so it's the "last" saga, but that would mean only 2 sagas and, it wasn't last cuz GT came out(even though AT didn't make it). Or it cud be Zeta as other's are saying. I'm not 100% sure tbh so i can't say for sure.



sunate	Jul 27 2008, 03:14 PM Post #41
Posts: 644 Group: Donator Member #3,481 Joined: June 16, 2008 Gender Not Specified Favourite Anime Eureka 7 What Browser do you use? safari	Come on now the z sowrd. >_> no...Well it doesnt really have to mean anything its just the name of the seires.



Tourist	Jul 27 2008, 10:34 PM Post #42
Posts: 74 Group: Member Member #3,589 Joined: July 26, 2008 Favourite Anime Deathnote and DBZ What Browser do you use? zorro de fuego...or Firefox in English	Well like it's been mentioned before Dragonball z is "Doragon bôru zetto" Japanese. Although in Japanese there in no character equivalent to the, letter Z. So zetto is merely an adaptation of the letter z. Basically zetto just means z. Now why z? I have no idea, although I do no that the original manga of Dragonball did include the portions which DBZ in the anime. In reality DB and DBZ are just one manga. It was Toei Animation which chose to spit them into. Yes, for all I know it can stand for last, or for full throttle, or it just plain sounded cool to the animators who knows. GT wasn't any where near being dreamed up by Toei studios at the time they were creating DBZ.....I hate GT in the GT in my head plays out completely different. There's still SSJ 4 and a super cyborg 17 but that's where the similarities end.



Themoonisours	Jul 28 2008, 05:53 AM Post #43
Posts: 12 Group: New Member Member #3,571 Joined: July 21, 2008	In a Q and A with AT the question was brought up and this is how he responded. Q: What does the Z in Dragonball Z stand for? (Most of us know that the Z was only used in the anime and it was just an index to separate Goku as a kid and Goku as an adult. But check out the response from Toriyama-san). A: I was starting to run out of things for Dragonball and I really wanted to finish the series. So I thought that if I put a Z at the end of Dragonball, people would think that it was going to end soon!



Son Sebbe	Jul 28 2008, 08:58 PM Post #44
Posts: 81 Group: Member Member #3,568 Joined: July 20, 2008 Favourite Anime Dragonball, Dragonball GT, Dragonball Z 'In that order! What Browser do you use? WIE Favourite Manga Dragonball, One piece...	Quote: Err I actually found DBZ to be more about Vegeta and Goku than Gohan >_> also Z has nothing to do with the Z sword nor Ultimate Gohan, the reason is because when Akira started writing thhe Z series he hadn't even thought of the Buu saga yet lol... Akira Toyamma never made Dragonball Z, He only Made Dragonball, Which is from Goku meets Bulma to Last Tornement with Pan... (After Buu saga) Quote: Isn't in the manga just called Dragon Ball? Maybe the Z it's just cuz it looks cool. True, Because TOI ANIMATIOS... (Missspelled??) Quote: No Dragonball in the manga is the same as Dragonball in the anime Dragonball Z in the manga is the same as Dragonball Z in the anime, and BBQ already posted why its Z - IN the U.S Doragon Bôru Zetto whats the meaning of Zetto no idea Well, Even the Japanese started to puplish the Manga as Z now??? Quote: The 'Z' does'nt stand for nothing. Z sword was named after the title and the Z Fighters were names by Akira Torriyama after the Namek Saga on the Manag Isn't that not in some translations? (I'm not really sure about that one... I can tell what you say is true in Denmark, Germany and Sweeden... Quote: Well the other day I was chatting with Tyro and he brought to my mind that the japanese manga of DBZ was still called Dragonball, they changed it for the anime and added Z in the anime, then the english version was DBZ for the manga and anime, but in Japan the manga is all DB As I said above, Shoen Jumps started to call it Dragonball Z now...



* -Zero-	Jul 28 2008, 09:08 PM Post #45
Black Knight Posts: 8,697 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,874 Joined: November 5, 2006 Favourite Anime Code Geass, Death Note, Dragonball/Z	Son Sebbe Jul 28 2008, 08:58 PM Quote: Err I actually found DBZ to be more about Vegeta and Goku than Gohan >_> also Z has nothing to do with the Z sword nor Ultimate Gohan, the reason is because when Akira started writing thhe Z series he hadn't even thought of the Buu saga yet lol... Akira Toyamma never made Dragonball Z, He only Made Dragonball, Which is from Goku meets Bulma to Last Tornement with Pan... (After Buu saga) facepalm He did write Dragonball Z, he just didnt name it Dragonball Z that was toei, but it was still his story, same exact thing. Therefore there's no difference.
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